other/6955: collect2 says "core dumped" when there is no core

[Wolfgang Bangerth]

The following reply was made to PR other/6955; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth@ticam.utexas.edu>
To: "Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu>
Cc: bruno@clisp.org, <gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org>, <gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org>,
   <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: other/6955: collect2 says "core dumped" when there is no core
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 11:00:33 -0600 (CST)

 >  > I _made_ you responsible :-) You weren't in any legal sense, I just looked 
 >  > at the output of "cvs annotate" to find out that you were the one who 
 >  > checked in the lines of question.
 > 
 > I hate to be a pedant, but now honor is at stake. :-)
 
 Uh, this is getting out of hand -- I just wanted to get someone to review
 the patch... But then we both live in a country where the end seems to
 justify the means, so I would say I succeeded and my approach was
 justified ;-) (No WMD found while searching CVS, though.)
 
 And, by the way -- note my ingenious (and mostly unconscious) choice of 
 words: I just said that you "checked in" these lines, not "broke" or 
 "botched up"...
 
 > I honestly don't think I introduced this error.  Looking back at the
 > cvs logs, it came in through one of the many infamous gcc2 merges.  It
 > came in over four years ago: "Merge in gcc2 snapshot 19980929".
 
 Well, the line we are talking about is collect2.c:1511. This line has time 
 stamp 1999-11-25, CVS version 1.87, which was your commit. Now, I 
 acknowledge that if I had checked more carefully, then I'd have seen that 
 your patch only preserved existing (wrong) behavior, but I haven't found a 
 way to get the equivalent of cvs annotate of past versions to see who 
 really introduced this.
 
 At any rate, I take back any non-intended blame, hereby fully rehabilitate 
 your honor and assume all guilt myself. Let the patch go in! (I think it 
 qualifies as "obvious".)
 
 Thanks
  Wolfgang
 
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